The Whiting were big and bountiful!

Last night high tide was around 10pm, it got dark just before 9. I started fishing at about 7 wanting to catch the rising tide. And it was great.

I had walked the beach at low tide, noting that the sandbar was pretty well unbroken over much of the beach I normally work, so I chose a spot where the slough was at its widest and the sandbar looked a little deeper. I was fishing with frozen shrimp and had two rods out, one rigged for bluefish, the other whiting,

The hits started about an hour after I arrived, and the first catch was a beautiful large fish. Others later were a little smaller, but the average was bigger than normal. Interspersed was a nice 20" bonnet head shark which gave a grand fight, and a small sailcat.

I had caught enough by nine, so I left before the full tide, but even so I had been pushed to the top of the beach by the tide and the large rollers left over from our recent stormy weather.

While on the subject, the other day walking behind the RV park I noticed a pile of fish dumped in the trees. Good eating sized whiting. I dont understand. If everyone just kept enough fish for their own immediate use, and either stopped fishing, or released the rest, the stocks would improve on their own and we would not need regulation. To waste fish like that was criminal!